Osgoode Hall Garden and University Park
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/03/21/osgoode-hall-garden-and-university-park/

Over past months, the Ontario Line’s effect on trees in various locations around Toronto has become something of a cause célèbre. Osgoode Hall was, in a way, the “poster child” for this because of its location and the historic buildings at Queen & University. However, this was far from the only affected location with tree […]
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Mr. Tory’s Legacy
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/17/mr-torys-legacy/

On February 17, I did an interview on CBC’s Metro Morning about the potential legacy of John Tory for Toronto’s transit system. Here is a link to my recording of it. As and when CBC posts the interview on their own site, I will flip the link over to them.
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Goodbye, Mr. Tory
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/11/goodbye-mr-tory/

John Tory is no longer Mayor of Toronto. That astounding news landed on Friday evening, February 10, to the complete surprise of Toronto’s political scene. You can read the details in the Star, who broke the story, and other online sources. The great irony here is that Tory was felled by that most garden variety […]
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Seventeen
https://stevemunro.ca/2023/01/30/seventeen/

Here we are again at this blog’s anniversary. Looking back over the past year, let alone ahead to the next one, I regret that I am not in an up-beat, optimistic mood. A year ago, I wrote: In Ontario, there is hope that opposition will coalesce to drive the Premier and his band of incompetent […]
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